Metafictional works

Amélie (, , ) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of Amélie Poulain, played by Audrey Tautou, a shy and quirky waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while dealing with her own isolation. The film features an ensemble cast of supporting roles, including Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty

1998 film directed by Peter Weir

2016 film directed by Tim Miller

2023 film directed by Greta Gerwig

1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2018 film directed by David Leitch

2011 American animated film

1975 film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

2024 Marvel Studios film by Shawn Levy

2003 film directed by Joe Dante

2021 film directed by Lana Wachowski

2017 animated film directed by Chris McKay

2002 film directed by Spike Jonze

Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe

2021 film directed by Malcolm D. Lee

1993 film directed by John McTiernan

2015 film directed by Chris Columbus

2021 film directed by Shawn Levy

1974 film directed by Mel Brooks

2017 animated film directed by Charlie Bean

1983 film directed by Terry Jones

1977 American musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese

1984 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

1999 science-fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot

novel series by Stephen King

1994 film directed by John Carpenter

2006 film by Marc Forster

1994 slasher film

2018 film directed by Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath

2012 film by Martin McDonagh

2004 film directed by Don Mancini

2001 Japanese anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

2022 film directed by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee

2005 film directed by Nora Ephron

2007 film by Mark A.Z. Dippé

2022 film directed by Akiva Schaffer

2023 short film by Wes Anderson

2022 film directed by Tom Gormican

2022 film

2000 film by John Ottman

Existenz (stylized as eXistenZ) is a 1999 science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg. The film follows Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a game designer who becomes the target of assassins while playing a virtual reality game of her own creation. An international co-production between Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, it also stars Jude Law, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Christopher Eccleston, Willem Dafoe, and Robert A. Silverman.

2000 film by Joe Berlingeri

1990 film by Tom Stoppard

Anaconda is a 2025 American action-adventure comedy horror film that serves as a meta-reboot of Anaconda (1997) and is the seventh installment in the Anaconda film series. The film was directed by Tom Gormican, who co-wrote it with Kevin Etten, and stars Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior and Selton Mello. The story follows a group of childhood friends trying to remake the 1997 film, only to be attacked by a giant and murderous anaconda.

2023 short film directed by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy

Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep", he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers, to the point of often being considered the main antagonist of the Cthulhu Mythos as a whole. He is presented as the messenger of Azathoth. He is later described by other authors as being part of the Other Gods, an alien pantheon.

2024 film directed by Carlos Saldanha

1992 film by Sally Potter

2015 film by Jon M. Chu

The King in Yellow is a short story collection by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The British first edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1895.

1945 short story by J. R. R. Tolkien

Orgazmo is a 1997 American superhero sex comedy film written, directed and edited by Trey Parker and produced by Matt Stone, Jason McHugh, and Fran Rubel Kuzui. It stars Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Robyn Lynne, and Michael Dean Jacobs. The plot follows Joe Young (Trey Parker), a devout Mormon missionary who, to pay for his and his fiancée's dream wedding and home, acts in a pornographic film as the superhero Orgazmo with his side-kick Choda Boy (Dian Bachar).

2008 animated film directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé

2009 CGI film directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé

2017 film directed by Franck Khalfoun

2015 body horror film directed by Tom Six

2024 American supernatural horror film by Joshua John Miller

2019 film directed by Gaspar Noé

Soapdish is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Michael Hoffman, from a screenplay by Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman. The film was produced by Aaron Spelling and Alan Greisman, and executive produced by Herbert Ross.

2023 computer-animated fantasy-comedy film